Several people have been injured after an undercover police car smashed into diners at a pizza restaurant in north London.
Two members of the public and two police officers were hurt after the silver Vauxhall Astra crashed outside Pizza East in Highgate Road in Kentish Town this evening.
Officers in Camden were responding to an emergency call in the unmarked car when they were involved in a collision with another car at the Sanderson Close junction with Highgate Road.
The police car then smashed into a bollard outside the packed pizza restaurant, just before 7.45pm today.
Two members of the public, a man and a woman, were injured by the police car, with the man sustaining a head injury during the collision.
They are believed to have been dining at the restaurant when they were hit by the vehicle.
Police said both the man and the woman, who received non life-threatening injuries, were being treated at the scene by paramedics.
Two police officers were also injured during the collision.
A Met Police spokesman said: "A man, believed to be in his thirties, is in a non-life threatening condition. A woman, also believed to be in her thirties, is being treated for minor injuries.
"Two police officers in the unmarked police car involved in the collision are also being treated for whiplash injuries.
"The other vehicle involved stopped at the scene and the driver is assisting police with their enquiries.
"No arrests have been made. Local road closures are in place.
"As a matter of course, this incident been refereed to the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards."
An LAS spokeswoman said: “We were called at 7.43pm to reports of a road traffic collision on Highgate Road in Kentish Town.
“We sent two ambulance crews, a paramedic in a fast responder car and an incident response officer. The first of our medics were at the scene in under five minutes.
“We treated a man for a head injury and took him to a major trauma centre. We checked over two other patients, a man and a woman, at the scene but neither of them were taken to hospital."
.Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked to call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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